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Live Works: Lali ChetwyndThe Fall of Man: Construction & Rehearsal
The set for The Fall of Man: A Puppet Extravaganza! was assembled from a series of enormous
xeroxes of a toy theatre, from Pollock’s Toy Museum. Billowing Photocopies were suspended by plumbing piping, forming
a structure that exploded traditional theatre architecture.
For further insight into the collaborative, working practice of Lali Chetwynd, documentation of the set construction and rehearsal process is available below. The music accompanying the video is one complete cycle, as performed live by Alex Tucker - mixed with atmosphere and audience interaction recorded on the night of the performance. Download Quicktime video of Lali Chetwynd's Construction & Rehearsal Preview the narrowband version before downloading the larger file
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Further Documentation
The Fall of Man: Performance Description
Every quarter of an hour a small group form the audience were allowed to pass inside the Proscenium arch to watch the puppet show more intimately. An ‘animal audience’ of costumed participants not unlike Jim Henson’s ‘Muppets’ were seated in the traditional area designated to Spectators! The ‘animal audience’ played the traditional roll of the Chorus, but with a demented twist. ‘You may have found yourself in a fruity…squeeze.’ Within the confines of the Stage area there were two sets built from cardboard. One representing Eden and John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the other representing a utopian society of the future as depicted in Karl Marx’s and Engles German Ideology, where each day the individual members share manual labour and philosophise - tragically out of reach... Clowns handling crude puppets played out each narrative. They performed repeatedly throughout the two hour event, providing both the 'traditional' audience and 'animal' audience with the opportunity to see all the intricacies of the performance. Lali Chetwynd, 2006 | |
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